On Wednesday, a group of high school students from South Callaway descended upon Fulton — to bowl.
The students were knocking down pins at the Fulton Bowling Center. The unit was part of the school’s physical education and lifetime sports classes.

For the last 10 years, Callaway County Prosecuting Attorney Bob Sterner has worked to supplement the pay for his assistant prosecuting attorneys using a fund with a fee collected for hot checks.
Now, that fund is starting to dry up with less check writing and more people using debit cards for transactions.

Earning patches is a big part of being a Girl Scout. That begins early with Daisy Troops — the youngest scouts, usually aged in preschool or kindergarten — so Fulton troop leader Phyllis Garnett went online to find a patch her Daisies might be interested in doing.

As the third largest county in the state, Callaway County is an anomaly. It is filled with sporadic farmland, the most concentrated of which is in the northern part of the county, while the southern half is filled with people.

It was an ad in The Fulton Sun that drew Bartley first grade teacher Kathleen Wilson to a project for her classroom — filling boxes for soldiers. Debo Funeral Home provided the boxes, and will pay for the shipping when the boxes are returned and filled for military personnel overseas.

Fulton business leaders have been working through the DREAM project to begin a revitalization of downtown, but the addition of a second reactor at the Ameren UE Callaway Power Plant could help that process along.

Cheers echoed the gym at South Callaway High School Wednesday evening. The cheers were not for the South Callaway basketball team, but for 137 students who received gold medals at the 10th annual Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards.